Faith, Fiction, Friends

I worked as director of Communications for St. Louis Public Schools for eight months. It was the position I worked for the least amount of t...

If I had any doubts  from the job interview , the  first day on the job was confirmation .  The next few months underscored it . If I could ...

St. Bride’s Church   in London’s Fleet Steet is known as the “Journalists’ Church.” The church and the area around it have a long history wi...

Looking back at five decades of writing, I can say with certainty the major lesson I’ve learned. I was reminded of it while I was reading   ...

For my two introductory reporting courses in journalism school, I had the teacher said to be the toughest of the faculty. And he was. His cl...

I started reading the memoir   Ghost of the Hardy Boys   because I loved the Hardy Boys mystery books as a kid and because I knew a little o...

Batya Ungar-Sargon  is the deputy opinion editor at  Newsweek  and co-hosts  Newsweek’s  podcast “The Debate.” Before joining Newsweek, she ...

When I read   Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now  by former editor of  The Guardian   Alan Rusbridger , I was ...

Alan Rusbridger   was editor of   The Guardian   from 1995 until he retired in 2015. His career spanned the years of the advent of the world...

I’m not going to offer any commentary on whether the jury verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case was right, wrong, or something in between.   ...

When we moved to St. Louis in 1979, the city had two daily newspapers – the St. Louis   Post-Dispatch   and the St. Louis   Globe-Democrat ....

In 1970, Congress passed legislation to create the  Newspaper Preservation A ct. The act exempted “joint operating agreements” (JOAs) from a...

We have to start talking about journalism in the United States, and specifically the decline of journalism. Newspapers, television programs,...

The media training industry – the companies and consultants with train people to be interviewed – owes its creation to one man and one telev...

I graduated with a degree in journalism in the 1970s. It was the era of Vietnam, Watergate, and Woodward & Bernstein, and it was a heady...

Up-front: This is not a pro-Trump article. It’s not an anti-media article. In fact, it’s a pro-journalism article, from someone who was...